501 years ago in the Philippines, according to the notes of Magellan’s diarist ITALIAN CHRONICLER Antonio Pigafetta (Mariqui Romero) Here are direct quotes from Antonio Pigafetta, Italian nobleman and diarist of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who led an expedition of five ships, the...
Chef Don Patrick Baldosano of Linamnam dreams up what we served to the travel-weary, starving Europeans in 1521 Images JULES VIVAS LIKE HOMONHON A special hut of palm and banana leaves set up in the al fresco area for the the first half of the dinner reimagining the arrival of Magellan's expedition...
Wala Lang Early on Easter Sunday morning, March 31, 1521, Magellan sent some men ashore to prepare a suitable place. Some 50 men including Magellan followed, dressed in their Sunday best. Six muskets fired as they stepped ashore and were greeted by Chiefs Kulambo and Siaui. The two were brothers,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza He was Italian, but the voyage he embarked on with a Portuguese-born explorer who owed his fealty to Spain would make him world-famous. But as diarist, chronicler, map-maker, linguist, and amanuensis of Ferdinand Magellan, Pigafetta made this part of the world famous,...
As part of the global celebration of the Quincentennial of the First Circumnavigation, 1519-1522, the National Historical Commission launches ‘Pigafetta’s Philippine Picnic’ by Felice Sta. Maria AROUND THE WORLD IN 1,082 DAYS Detail of a map of Ferdinand Magellan's Circumnavigation “The...
Through high seas, starvation, scurvy, a mutiny, and death, Magellan arrives on the islands of the Philippines and what welcomes him? Feasts ON THE COVER This week's Panorama mirrors the cover design of the new, exciting book 'Pigafetta's Philippine Picnic' by Felice Prudente Sta. Maria, with...
WEST PHILIPPINE SEA Shoal as seen in the Philippine Pavilion in Palazzo Mora (Andrea D' Altoe) I don’t apologize that it is only now that I am beginning to identify as a Filipino. I used to think that all that was Filipino in me was pure happenstance—I happened to be born in Manila of parents...
